rod building and rebuilding

[Redneck]

I built a few My Dad has just about become a Master at it. he has box's of stuff a nice adjustable rod holder. He still uses a BBQ roticary to spin the rod while curing the epoxy and spins the thread by hand still. if I had to guess he probabaly built 60-70 rods so far. He used to go to grage sales and buy old rods redo some of them and turn the rest into custom icefishing rods or small/short boat rods for the kid's. Very satisfying and addictive like the othes said and you cane match the colors to your gear.

[Kracker Jack]

Well I finally got around to it like a month ago ago built that manual rod wrapper. It about 1/2 day to build it. The bobbin is made to slide back and forth to get to those odd guides, the thread tensioner armature is actually a stainless ARM cut off a small dredge we use for striper fishing. She turned out really cool.

[Kracker Jack]

Practicing a little on some single foot guides. I'm gonna make me some speckle trout rods first.

[Kracker Jack]

Another practice session on some older Penn standup rod.

[Redneck]

I'm jealous Kracker nice set up. That's a pretty sturdy looking rod your wrapping. Did you build the handle?

[Kracker Jack]

Redneck, the brown fenwick in the first picture is the rod that started this whole thing. I've been wanting to refinish that rod for a long time. The fenwick is a 15# to 40# class that will be set up with a tld 15 I have laying around for taug fishing. The other Penn rod is a old school 40# to 80#. We have a bunch of old school 6/0 combos that need repair so I'm practicing my wraps on them.

[GREYWOLF]

looks like real nice work !!, I remember my father used to make custom rods out of fenwick 1 piece 7' blanks for striper casting rods . I know it took him a while to make them . but they were works of art that caught fish. I wish I had been more interested back then , I would love to learn how to make them now . Keep up the good work

[macojoe]

I use to make them, no real works of art but they caught tons of fish!! Got sick of it after a while as everyone wanted one, and soon I was making them for everyone. I was happy in a way when I lost my hands cause I coukld not do it anymore. But still have a few around.

[Kracker Jack]

Heres the rod drying rack i built a month ago. The chucks are made from 1/2 pvc caps. The motors are 8 rpm synchronous motors made for microwave turn tables. They were 4 dollars a piece. I think i have 17.00 dollars total in this setup. And its all i need.

[Striper80]

Originally Posted by Redneck

I built a few My Dad has just about become a Master at it. he has box's of stuff a nice adjustable rod holder. He still uses a BBQ roticary to spin the rod while curing the epoxy and spins the thread by hand still. if I had to guess he probabaly built 60-70 rods so far. He used to go to grage sales and buy old rods redo some of them and turn the rest into custom icefishing rods or small/short boat rods for the kid's. Very satisfying and addictive like the othes said and you cane match the colors to your gear.

Thanks for the idea about the rotisserie motor. I used a drill ith tape on the handle to regulate the speed. It just so happens I have one of those motors in my attic.